Research Interests

Formal theory; Comparative politics

Biography

Norman Schofield is Director of the Center in Political Economy, the William R. Taussig Professor of Political Economy, and Professor in the Departments of Economics and Political Science. He is currently working on topics in the theory of social choice, political economy, and democracy. In 2003-4 he was the Fulbright distinguished professor at Humboldt University in Berlin, and has recently held fellowships at ICER in Turin, and at the Hoover Institution at Stanford. In Spring 2008 he was the visiting Leitner Professor at Yale University.

His earlier books include Multiparty Government (with Michael Laver, in 1990), Social Choice and Democracy (1985), and three co-edited volumes: Political Economy: Institutions, Information, and Representation (1993) ,and Social Choice, Welfare and Ethics (1995), (both with Cambridge University Press), and Collective Decision Making (Kluwer, 1996). His more recent books include Mathematical Methods in Economics and Social Choice ( Springer in 2003). Architects of Political Change (2006), Multiparty Democracy (with Itai Sened, 2006), both with Cambridge University Press, The Spatial Model of Politics (Routledge, 2008), and The Political Economy of Democracy and Tyranny (Oldenbourg. 2009). He just co-edited a special issue of Social Choice and Welfare on Elections and Bargaining. A book entitled Leadership or Chaos, with Gallego, includes analyses of elections in Britain, Canada, the US, Turkey,  Russia and Poland, and was published by Springer in August 2011.  Two co-edited volumes on political economy, one with Caballero and one with Falaschetti and Rutten, were published by Springer and Routledge, respectively, in July 2011. He has been the recipient of a number of NSF awards, most recently one on electoral politics and regime change.

Selected Publications

Books

• Social Choice and Democracy Springer 1986
• Multiparty Government: the politics of coalition in Europe (with Michael Laver) OUP 1990, reprinted Michigan UP (1998).
• Mathematical Methods in Economics and Social Choice. Vol. 17 in Studies in Economic Theory, Springer 300 pp. F
• ebruary 2003. Paperback, March 2004.
• Architects of Political Change:Constitutional Quandaries and Social Choice Theory. Cambridge University Press, 317 pp June, 2006. view book
• Multiparty Democracy: Elections and Legislative Politics (co-authored with I. Sened). Cambridge University Press .223pp August, 2006. view book
• The Spatial Model of  Politics. Routledge (Volume 95 in the Routledge Series of Political Economy) Abingdon UK and New York . January  2008 ,320pp. Hardback view book
•  The Political Economy of Democracy and Tyranny, Oldenbourg: Munich. 350pp.  January 2009. Paperback. view book
• PolEcon of Democracy(edited with Aragones et al. 2008, Barcelona) view book
• Rationality (issue of SCW, edited with Nachbar, Salles and Wooders, 2001) view issue
• PolEcon of Elections (edited with Gallego and Kilgour, 2011, SCW) view book
• PolEcon of Institutions (edited with Caballero,  July 2011,Springer) view book
• Advances in Political Economy (edited with Caballero and Kselman 2013, springer , in press) view book
• Political Economy (ed with Rutten and Fallaschetti July 2011, Routledge) view book
• Leadership or Chaos (with Gallego, springer,July2011) view book

Articles

• Modelling Elections in Canada (with McAlister and Jeon Springer 2013) view paper
• Modelling elections in Turkey (with Betul Demikaya Springer 2013) VIEW PAPER
• Probability of a fit Choice (RED, 2012, in press) view paper
• Caucasus (JEPOP April2012, with Gallego, Jeon et al.) view paper
• US elections 2000 and 2004 (with Claassen, Ozdemmir and Gallego, Springer July 2011) view paper
• Post-Communist Regimes(with Tavits and Ozdemir, Springer 2011) view paper
• Anocracies and Autocracies(with Gallego:forthcoming 2013) view paper
• Moral Sentiments and Climate (Harvard College Economics review 2011)  view paper
• Chaos or stability (Czech Economic Review 2011) view paper
• UK elections 2005 and 2010 (Electoral stud 2011,30:484-496 with Gallego and Jeon) view paper
• US election 2008 and Israel (SCW 2011, with Claassen et al) view paper
• Turkey (SCW 2011, with Gallego et al) view paper
• Support for political leaders (with Schnidman, HOEC 28, 2011) view paper
• "A stochastic Model of the 2007 Russian Duma election" (with Alexei Zakharov) Public Choice 142 (2010): 177-194. view article
• "Social Orders" SCW 34 (2010): 503-536. view article
• Applications of a formal model (with Claassen, Ozdemir and Zakharov, 2010, IJMS) view article
• "Formal Models of Elections and Political Bargaining" (with Ugur Ozdemir) Czech Economic Review 3 (2009):207-242. view article
• Modelling Authoritarian Regimes (PPE, 2008,with Micah Levinson) view paper
• "An Activist Model of Democracy" in The Political Economy of Democracy, ed E.Aragones et al,  Barcelona: BBVA Foundation (2009). view paper
• "Switching Equilibria" in Legislative Parties ed Heller and Mershon, Macmillan (2009) view paper
• The Transformation of the Republican and Democratic Coalitions in the US (with Gary Miller) Perspectives on Politics 6(2008):433-450 view paper
• Divergence in the Spatial Stochastic Model of Voting," in Power, Freedom and Voting, Matthew Braham and Frank Steffen, eds. (2008) view paper
• "Social Choice" in the UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Systems. Oxford (2008) view paper
• "Democratic Paradoxes.," in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. L.Blume and S.Durlauf, eds. Macmillan, 2008). view paper
• Modelling Political Economy (HOEC 2008) view paper
• "The Mean Voter Theorem: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Convergent Equilibrium." The Review of Economic Studies ,74(3). (July 2007): 965-980. view paper
• "A Model of Political Competition with Activists applied to elections in Argentina , 1985-1995." (with Guido Cataife). MathSoc Sci, 53(3) ( May, 2007): 213-231. view paper
• "Elections and Activists Coalitions in the United States." ( with Gary Miller). The American Journal of Political Science 51(3) (July 2007):518-531. view paper
• "Political Equilibrium with Electoral Uncertainty." Social Choice and Welfare 28 (April, 2007):461-490. view paper
• "Social Choice and Elections." In A Positive Change in Political Science:The Legacy of Richard D.McKelvey's Writings,J.Alt,J.Aldrich and A.Lupia,eds. University of Michigan Press (September, 2007) pp. 205-222. view paper
• "Equilibria in the Spatial Stochastic Model of Voting with Party Activists."The Review of Economic Design.10 (3)(December 2006): 183-203. view paper
• Local Equilibria view paper
• BJPS (2005, with Sened) view paper
• EJPR (2005, with Sened view paper
• Jour Theor Pol 2004 view paper
• Elect Stud 2005 view paper
• Condorcet SCW 2005 view paper
• Activists and partisan realignment (with Gary Miller, APSR, 2003) view paper
• PPE (2003) view paper
• Political Studies (2003) view paper
• Politics and Society (2002) view paper
• Politics and Society (1999) view paper
• The election of Lincoln in 1860(with Kim Dixon, Homo Oeconomicus 17,2001) view paper
• The probability of a fit choice (RED, in press) view paper
• Quandaries of gridlock and Leadership (in press) view paper
• Canada election (with Kevin McAlister (in press) view paper
• Turkey election (with Betul Demirkya, in press) view paper
• Handbook of social choice 2002) view paper
• AOR (2002) view paper
• AOR (1998) view paper
• Public Choice (1998, with Martin et al) view paper
• New Int Econ Order view paper

Awards

• Hallsworth Senior Research Fellow at Manchester University 1982-3; Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at Caltech 1983-4; Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Science, Stanford 1988-9.
• Elected Fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. April 2005.Recipient with G.Miller of the Jack L.Walker prize for the best article on Political Parties in the APSR, 2004. and the Riker prize for contributions to political theory 2002.

Courses

• ps 4552,5552 Syllabus
• ps 3552 Syllabus

Working Papers

1. Poland (all tables,with Tavits et al 2011) view paper
2. Canada(all tables, with Gallego. Jeon and  Ozdemir 2011) view paper
3. UK elections:all tables with Jeon and Gallego, 2011 view paper
4. modeling elections in georgia and aizerbaijan  (with Gallego, Muskhelishvili and Jeon, JEPOP2012) view paper
5. activists and trade (with Galiani and TorrensJAPET, 2012) view paper
6. enlightenment and social choice view paper
7. leadership(wpsa meetingwith Schnidman) view paper
8. activists in US elections (with schnidman: ) view paper
9. Argentina (Cataife and SchofieldAIJCR, Vol1 2012)  view paper
10. APSA post comm.ppt view ppt
11. Britain class view pptt
12. opology and social choice view paper
13. class presentation view ppt
14. georgia presentation view ppt
15. Variable Choice Set Logit model for Canada 2004( with McAlister, Gallego and Jeon RR at Public Choice. view paper
16. convergence in polities (with Gallego) view paper
17. Quandaries of gridlock or leadership in US politics view paper